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In reply to the discussion: Pic of the week - McConnell with arms folded pout as McCain votes NO. [View all]calimary
(81,302 posts)Close proximity. Hands folded. Looks like his chin is down - which means his face is slanted such that his EYES are full forward. Looks as though he's leading with his eyes. Like a stink-eye. Like when a bull hunkers down, ready to charge. NOT leading with the chin. Leading with your eyes. Looking straight through his eyebrows at you, and heavier eyebrow presence can be read as meanness or toughness or anger or aggression. He's trying to bully McCain. Or make him feel extra shitty and worried about repercussions.
Psy ops, and from everything I've read about McConnell, he's an expert tactician - which means he knows a lot about psy ops. Domination, perceptions of toughness and/or bullying. Menacing. IMPLIED menacing. Body language tells you a lot. He's in a fighting stance, quiet and contained (he's not shaking fists or yelling with eyes bulging and maybe leading with his chin, such as it is). But ready to do damage or maybe musing over any number of ways to punish McCain for the way he voted.
Just look at the body language. The woman in the ochre jacket who's level-faced and watching McCain - her chin isn't down, the guy straining to see behind her, the guy seated between them looking straight ahead, the bearded guy who also seems to be looking at McCain fairly level-faced.
Either McConnell is hanging his head in disgust and disappointment and pondering his failure - the one with HIS name on it as Senate Majority Leader, or he's looking daggers at McCain for having "failed him".